Vicki Varvaressos (born 1949)

PORTRAIT OF FRANK WATTERS, 1980

oil on canvas

151.5 x 212.0 cm
154.0 x 215.5 cm (frame)

signed with initials and dated lower right: V V 80
signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: V VARVARESSOS / "FRANK WATTERS" 1980

Watters Gallery, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 16 June 1991, lot 62
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 February – 22 March 1981, cat. 26
BUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 56
Archie 100. A Century of the Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 June – 26 September 2021; and touring
on long term loan to Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria

Moore, N., ‘The Archibald Stakes’, The National Times, Sydney, 1 March 1981 (illus.)
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 19 (illus.), 236